[8491] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: What's Wrong With Content Protection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Ellison)
Mon Jan 22 11:18:05 2001
Date: 21 Jan 2001 22:04:18 -0800
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From: "Carl Ellison" <cme@acm.org>
To: "David Wagner" <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <94gges$8qk$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>
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At 05:29 AM 1/22/01 GMT, David Wagner wrote:
>Free markets may be the best hope we've got (or they may not), but
>in any case, wouldn't it be fair to say that reliance on free markets
>to eliminate content protection is a little risky?
[...]
>Now suppose that there's
>basically one dominant hardware manufacturer, and the content industry
>offers to pay a kickback to the manufacturer of 20% of the cost of a
>drive, per drive sold, if the manufacturer agrees to stop selling
>unrestricted hard drives.
An agreement not to produce a product doesn't sound like free market to me.
It sounds like something the Justice Dept should prosecute.
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